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I guess all she ’d say would be, “Let ’em if it seemed to make ’em any more comfortable.”

[''Jane enters. She has apron on and some towels over her arm''.

Are those towels finished?

Some is! Maybe I ’d done all of ’em if I ’d been a centipede.

Oh! I did n’t see you, Sadie.

Oh! Ha, ha! Well, I ain’t surprised.

(with Ella, selecting finished towels)

Well, Orin, does the tooth still hurt you?

Naw, it don’t hurt me none now. I got it in a bottle.

[He takes small bottle from pocket.

Oh you nasty thing. You get away!

(angrily)

What did I tell you about showin’ that tooth to folks!

Never mind, Orin, just run out to the barn and tell your Uncle Ben we ’ve got to have a path cleared under the clothes-lines.

All right.

[He crosses toward door.